Easily our choice for “Best Eyes” of the Hammer Girls, Madeline Smith launched her screen career with a small part in the 1970 sex romp Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, appearing with fellow Hammer Girl Veronica Carlson. The following year, she appeared in two films for Hammer Studios: as “Dolly” in Taste The Blood of Dracula (opposite Christopher Lee), and as “Emma Morton” in The Vampire Lovers (opposite Peter Cushing). In 1973, she appeared with Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood, and joined the ranks of the Bond Girls as “Miss Caruso” in Live and Let Die, with Roger Moore as James Bond. A year later, she returned to Hammer, starring with David Prowse and reunited with Peter Cushing in Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell.
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In a three year period, Veronica Carlson was terrorized onscreen by three of Hammer Studios’ most famous male villains: Christopher Lee as Dracula in the 1968 film Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Peter Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), and David Prowse (best known for playing Darth Vader) as the Frankenstein monster in, of course, The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). In 1974, she ran up against her second vampire count (David Niven) in Old Dracula. A year later she reunited with Peter Cushing onscreen in The Ghoul (1975). In 1995, she co-starred with Gunnar Hansen, who played Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in the straight-to-video flick Freakshow.
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